Master Yi with Gnar
How to Synergize Master Yi and Gnar
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Master Yi Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Master Yi vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Gnar
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Master Yi Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Master Yi sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Master Yi perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi plays on the same team as Gnar, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Gnar does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Master Yi plays with Gnar on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Master Yi during team fights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Gnar
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top companion for Master Yi that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Master Yi. By being on the same team as Master Yi, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Master Yi and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Master Yi. That means Master Yi players should be careful when finding Gnar allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Master Yi players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Master Yi and Gnar together, you may not be giving your team much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Master Yi to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Master Yi and Gnar synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Master Yi included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Master Yi boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Master Yi players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Master Yi and Gnar pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Gnar with Master Yi are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.